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Post by Lancelot Chan on Sept 19, 2020 15:53:06 GMT
My longship armoury 3V Tengu isn't the easiest sword to cut with. In many years since its arrival, I never really quite pinpointed the issue with its difficulty to cut with. It's thicker in edge angle, yes, but not as thick as cold steel stuff. It's still much thinner than most of the mass produced sword out there, plus my crazy edge sharpness. Yet, it has got itself stuck in the targets again and again from time to time.
Only recently did I manage to pinpoint the issue. It has a high tendency to go tip forward, thus making it a very good thrusting sword, or sword doing tip cut. But this tendency will make it CHOP right into the target instead of slicing through when I cut with it using methods that would work on other swords. So I have to figure out how to restrain its tip-outward attribute without decreasing its velocity.
After around 7 rolls of newspapers with hard core, and 4 days of lots of thinking, experiment and testing, I managed to finalize the best methods for both left and right diagonal cuts. The methods also proved very effective on other swords as well, especially necessary for those that share the tip-outward tendency swords.
This is the finalized version, combining the golden ratio of chop and slice into the motion, designed to cut through substantial meaty and hard cored targets.
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Post by pgandy on Sept 19, 2020 16:46:48 GMT
Glad that you got it figured out. When something unsolvable gets on my mind it drives me up the wall. And most of the time when I do figure it out I find the solution not that all difficult, only the hunt for it.
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Post by Lancelot Chan on Sept 19, 2020 16:55:51 GMT
Glad that you got it figured out. When something unsolvable gets on my mind it drives me up the wall. And most of the time when I do figure it out I find the solution not that all difficult, only the hunt for it. Yes, the students learned the solution in 1 day. My hunt for it spent days and lots of hard working though. HHAHAH
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Post by Lancelot Chan on Sept 21, 2020 10:52:10 GMT
Lazy version. Whenever I research and develop a technique, the first version would always be the max power version but then I'll come up with a lazy version as well, to verify my understandings and theory. If my understanding and theory were correct, the excessive power should not be essential to the technique's success. So the lazy version should work also. Otherwise, I might just have been "powering through". The lazy version would also be the better version in practical term.
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